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arrest

Deprivation of personal liberty by legal authority to stop commission of a crime or to charge someone with violation of a criminal or civil law.

Federal laws, state laws, and local ordinances define circumstances under which individuals may be detained by law officers acting independently, court-issued warrants, or other individuals (citizen's arrest).



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Socarides (1978, 1990), working within the tradition of clinical psychoanalytic therapy, suggests that homosexuality may be the result of disturbances in the preoedipal phase and therefore a reflection of developmental arrest.
On rare occasions, when developmental arrest occurs at an earlier stage, the coronary sinus is absent and the persistent LSVC drains directly into the atrium.
The focus of treatment is to repair the discovered developmental arrests with newly reframed beliefs and working models (Stolorow & Lachman, 1980).
 
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